Chapter 113 Get out of here, don't stop

Although he hit his forehead, with the help of Luo Xiaoyue, Meng Zhe can finally transfer all his energy to the upcoming fate... Ah, no, it's the formation of the "I-am-legend" comic team.

After all, Meng Zhe still intends to learn from Huang Yulang, changing the comics completed by one person to be completed by the division of labor, while he is only responsible for the creation of stories and the setting of comic characters.

There are indeed too few cartoon talents in China. In order to select the right team, Meng Zhe was busy until the beginning of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. In this era, is it easy to form a comic production team composed of pure girls?

It's not easy!

As for the reason for the trouble of setting up a pure girl comics production group, although everyone speculates that Meng Zhe wants to set up a CLAMP aunt group in China, the real reason is only because the two big loli of the Jiang family, who strongly asked to help Meng Zhe during the winter vacation.

Fortunately, "Anime Boy" has been published for more than a year, and Meng Zhe is already a well-known famous talented young cartoonist - these days, this kind of name, which is more awesome than experts, is very reassuring.

So in the end, Meng Zhe successfully abducted ten girls who were in their youth and were very talented in comics. After learning about the high salary and benefits of Tianjiao Club, the parents of the girls immediately fooled Xiao Zhao, who could talk about cow dung as a peony flower, and let their daughter sign it. It's a work contract!

With the two big loli of the Jiang family, the number of pure girl animation team became twelve. This auspicious number made Meng Zhe couldn't help complaining casually: "Simply, you just call it Women's Twelve Lefang..."

"Women's Twelve Fun Square? What's the meaning of the name Meng Jiji?

Obviously, Jiang Xiyao doesn't know the name of Women's Twelve Music Square at all.

Speaking of Women's Twelve Music Squares, Meng Zhe suddenly remembered that it is actually quite good to form such a popular art group that organically combines traditional Chinese musical instruments with modern pop music performance forms?

On the one hand, you can use the music they play to make background music for the animation, and on the other hand, you can also package them and send them abroad to make money!

After the women's twelve music workshops formed a group, it was not good to develop in China. After all, in the eyes of the Chinese people - the popular elements with such "tacky" national instruments are completely playing the piano. Western musical instruments and other Western musical instruments and sleepy symphonies are elegant... However, in the eyes of foreigners, Chinese national musical instruments are very oriental charm. And the charming national musical instrument, coupled with more than a dozen eye-catching Chinese beauties, is simply beautiful!

Therefore, when the Women's Twelve Music Workshop, which did not develop well in China after forming a group, went to Japan to perform in 2003, because of the [***] pneumonia pandemic that year, they had to stay in Japan for several months and suddenly became popular... Their first album released in Japan, the first album was Only 10,000 copies were sold, and one million copies were sold in two months!

This is not a pirated CD of three pieces! And it's all genuine CD sales!

Then, the woman's Twelve Music Square, which bloomed in the wall and smelled outside the wall, was warmly welcomed by the masses immediately after returning to China.

You said before that the fusion of ethnic musical instruments with popular elements is very messy?

Playing the piano, your sister, when did I say such a thing?!

Easterners say elegant and sought after good things. How can we not like them?

Well, the psychology of worshiping foreign countries is not good, but this is also the most real psychology of many people - the national quintessence that foreigners say is really good, and the national quintessence that foreigners say is not good is also a dross.

From the Mengyuan to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the Eight-Nation Alliance to the invasion of China, the self-confidence of the Chinese nation has been trampled on again and again, and the once upright backbone has been interrupted again and again. Although there have been bloody battles with the coalition forces of more than 20 countries in the Korean battlefield and won the unparalleled record of victory, in the hearts of many Chinese people. The broken spine has never been picked up.

This kind of inferiority of the conquered is projected into the real world. One of them is that the moon in foreign countries is rounder than that in China... When he thought of this, Meng Zhe suddenly found that his mind had spread again. Hey, this was all the last time Jiang Xiyao's girl, who was heavily pressed on my brother-in-law, not to mention my brother-in-law's back of my head. The sequelae of the falling of the spoon and cement pavement.

So, Meng Zhe couldn't help reaching out and touching the forehead that left a small scar, and then stared at his sister-in-law Jiang Xiyao and said, "Can't I like this name?"

Speaking of Meng Zhe, in fact, he knew after the Women's Twelve Music Workshop became famous in Japan that he was definitely a maverick national instrumental pop group in the pop music industry. But just like Meng Zhe said, the members of the Women's Twelve Music Square are constantly changing, but he really likes this group.

Although she was dissatisfied with Meng Zhe's answer, she subconsciously touched the scar on Meng Zhe's forehead, which reminded Jiang Xiyao of the time when she hit the cement road on Meng Zhe's forehead, so she was embarrassed to continue to quarrel with Meng Zhe.

Since even Jiang Xiyao, who can most disobey Meng Zhe, no longer protested against the name of the team, the other new girls who joined the team have no right to speak.

Xiao Meng, editor-in-chief, is not only Mr. Jiji, who teaches everyone to draw in person, but also everyone's boss. It's not good to disobey him, right?

Besides... The name of Women's Twelve Music Square seems to be quite poetic.

The girls exchanged eyes with each other and actually accepted Meng Zhe's casual name, and nodded one after another to accept the name of the team.

But then Meng Zhe expressed his remorse, because he felt that since he might have to operate Women's Twelve in the future, the name is not good to use it here now - simply change the name of Women's Twelve Workshop to Women's Twelve Painting Workshop?

This time, Jiang Weiyu expressed her opposition, because she felt that if she modified the painting workshop into a painting shop with a slight modification, it would be more poetic and picturesque. The so-called painting boat is naturally not a painting boat, but a gorgeously decorated tour boat... Meng Zhe will naturally not refute the face of his future wife, so Meng Zhe's first collective cartoon production team was born in a relatively outrageous way - the Women's Twelve Painting Workshop.

Now that the team has been formed, Meng Zhe needs to tell the girls what kind of story I-am-legend is.

In telling the story, Meng Zhe took out the original painting settings of the coyote, saber and others he had already drawn, as well as the original painting of the personal game warehouse with a very sci-fi concept.

Then, Meng Zhe asked the girls to work together to draw the first chapter of the I-am-legend comic book according to the story he provided and the original painting settings.

So the girls began to work together - Jiang Weiyao was responsible for setting the storyboard composition, Jiang Xiyao was responsible for writing the manuscript, and the new girls were doing other work separately.

As for Meng Zhe, when the girls began to draw, he had already run to his Jiji Animation Studio to check the production of the TV animation of Fairy Sword and went to the city.

Since Meng Zhe injected start-up capital, the animation studio has begun the TV animation production of "Fairy Sword". After more than a month of hard work, all the original paintings needed for the 25-minute animation have been completed, and more than 20,000 intermediate paintings needed have been completed. More than 17,000.

At present, the technology of computer-assisted animation production is not mature, so these intermediate drawings must be done by hand-painting.

Animation animation... Its basic principles are the same as those of movies and TV, which are visual principles.

Medically, it is said that human beings have the special surname of "visual retention", that is to say, after the human eye sees a painting or an object, it will not disappear within 1/24 seconds.

So using this principle, playing the next picture before it disappears will give people a smooth visual change effect. Therefore, the film is shot and played at the speed of 24 frames per second, and the TV is shot and played at the speed of 25 frames per second (PAL system) (CCTV animation is PAL system) or 30 frames (NSTC system).

According to the classification method in the industry, animation is roughly divided into "perfect animation" (animated TV) that is close to natural action and "limited animation" (slide slide animation) that adopts simplified and exaggerated. From the visual effect of the space, it can be divided into flat animation ("Little Tiger Returns") and three-dimensional animation ("Final Fantasy"). From the perspective of playback effect, it can also be divided into sequential animation (continuous action) and interactive animation (repeated action). In terms of the number of frames per second, there are also full animation (24 frames per second) (Disney animation) and semi-animation (less than 24 frames) (third-rate animation). In order to save money, Chinese animation companies often use semi-animation to make TV movies.

Obviously, what Meng Zhe is making his Jiji Animation Studio do now is obviously not a third-rate semi-animation, but a full animation with a smooth picture and no pause.

After Meng Zhe entered the studio, he went directly to the coloring department to inspect the ongoing coloring of the Celilu film.

Cyluan film, also known as a clear film, is a transparent film made of polyester material. The surface is smooth and transparent like a thin paper. When making cartoons, this material can not only draw different action characters on different films for multi-layer shooting, and the pictures are not affected by each other. At the same time, they can overlap with the background to enhance the level and three-dimensional effect of the picture.

Since the animation of Fairy Sword, Meng Zhe has been engaged in both painting supervision and color assignment in addition to the de facto original author and chief director of the comic.

The painting supervision needs to correct the original painting and the finished animation to see whether the character's face shape conforms to the character's setting, whether the action is smooth, etc. If necessary, you must be able to re-pain, so only senior original painters and animators can do it.

In addition to specifying that "the clothes should be red and the trousers should be black", it is more important to specify the shadow and layered color required for the coloring of the Cylot painting, which is a pigment of XXX.

Now Jiji Animation Studio is the pioneer of Liao Hua, a general in Shuzhong. Meng Zhe can only force his head. Well, although he is stubborn, Meng Zhe is also very serious and responsible when doing things... It's common for him to type back unqualified things and make them again.

Two days ago, there was a newcomer who joined the animation studio. When Meng Zhe played back some of the Cellulu films he was responsible for coloring and redo them, he said, "Jiji BOSS, what we do is nothing more than coaxing children. There is no need for such certification at all. Anyway, even if we do it, it's almost those little hairs. The child can't see it..."

And Meng Zhe looked at the other party for at least a minute. When the newcomer lowered his head, Meng Zhe pointed to the other party's nose and roared, "Go to the finance department to get your salary this month, and then you get out of here!"

Thanks to the imperfect labor law of this era, Meng Zhe doesn't even need to pay even an extra month's salary for the employees he fired, and he doesn't need to worry that the expelled person will go to the court to sue him or something.

The employees of the animation studio saw for the first time the Jiji boss who had always been kind in their eyes. What a terrible momentum they had when they were angry... And under Meng Zhe's forced momentum, no one even dared to come up to plead for the newcomer who was directly fired by Meng Zhe because of his words.

After expelling the newcomer who tried to perfunctory the audience, Meng Zhe gathered the people of the animation studio and said in front of all the staff, "I just want to tell you that if we perfunctory the audience now, sooner or later the audience will also perfunctory us. I, Meng Zhe, don't want to be criticized in the future. He said with his nose, 'Oh, I know you. You are Meng Jiji, who led a lot of garbage animators and made many third-rate cartoons!' Therefore, if anyone still has the same idea as that guy, he can get this month's salary and get out of here!"

After a pause, looking at the solemn expressions on the faces of the people in the studio with satisfaction, Meng Zhe continued: "I think you all know that there are famous Disney animations in the United States. Although there is no big company as famous as Disney, there are a large number of people who can produce exquisite film-grade cartoons such as Ji. A company like Bili. Yes... I, Meng Zhe, have never said how strong this Jiji animation studio is, and I have never shouted the empty slogan of more than Ghibli in three years and more than Disney in five years. But I really want to lead everyone to make a few cartoons that can still be remembered by many people after a few years, and it's just a good-looking cartoon!"

At this point, Meng Zhe stretched out his hand and clicked at the door of the studio where the expelled employee had just walked out, and then stared at the people in the studio in a slightly sad tone and asked, "T you tell me, is it even such a simple idea and such a low goal? Is it Ji's?

Under Meng Zhe's eyes, most people lowered their heads in shame, because although they didn't say the same words as the newcomer who was expelled just now, they had the same idea in their hearts more or less - cartoons, show things to children, so it's almost enough.

For this matter, Meng Zhe can't help but be so sad and fight.

In the later life before rebirth, didn't Chinese animation have this kind of mentality, so they made one third-rate semi-animation after another?

Yes, even if the overall environment of the domestic animation industry is very poor, "Pleasant Goat and Grey Wolf" can also make money as well as success! The road is all made by people. Even if there are various restrictions, can't they succeed?

It's still a metaphor for Guo Xiaosi. Although he carried the funny name of "Sanmao Copying Four", when he couldn't get the magazine number of the "Most Novel" magazine, didn't he also use a way to make a whole set of book publication number, and then steal a book to publish the magazine "Most Novel"?

In fact, Meng Zhe has never understood why Chinese animators can't think of a similar idea.

There are too many restrictions on TV cartoons, so go to online animation. TV cartoons are not easy to be approved in radio and television, so steal the name of animated movies that are easy to be approved, and then directly give up the TV broadcast platform and specialize in the network platform.

Anyway, in addition to fame, the TV broadcasting platform can't earn money at all, and the main audience are small children, so there is no big purchasing power of peripheral products.

And the online platform is different. Most of the people who watch animation on the Internet are loyal fans who really love animation, and most of them are fans of animation who have a certain economic strength. If you can make a popular TV animation, then just selling genuine peripheral products can get the investment back, right?

Of course, Meng Zhe also takes this kind of thing. In the future society before the rebirth of Japanese animation, which has successfully occupied most of the market, it is also very difficult to succeed.

Because animation wants to be popular, it not only needs excellent animation production, but also needs to have attractive comic stories and a distinctive voice actor team... Are there any of these three conditions in China before rebirth?

There can only be a part. In fact, there has never been a shortage of animation production talents. The story can be adapted from online novels or those popular local comics, but the voice actor... Speaking of which, Meng Zhe has really seen domestic animation adapted from online novels in later generations. If Meng Zhe remembers correctly, that animation should It should be adapted from the tree-shita wild fox version of Searching for Gods, but the animation can only be described as miserable in terms of both the picture and the voice actor dubbing.

The "Search Gods" written by the wild fox under the tree itself is a good story with a very large structure, but the fact is that the good story is still made into a bad animation.

Why?

It's still the three words Meng Zhe said - don't worry!

(to be continued)